stoltz@ida.org (Bill Stoltz) (03/23/89)
OH NO, not again. Somebody trying to get free advice on some products. Sorry! :-( But you have to admit, for real life stories this is a great source of information. How often to you get to praise or condem a product to a complete stranger. I have been talking to various vendors for the last 3 months on different physical media equipment, Like SynOptics, ODS, Du Pont, and Proteon. Now, I would like the truth, or at least your interpretation of it. We have settled on a star topology for the horizontal wiring. We installed some unshieled twisted pair about 3 years ago, for RS 232, that we may reuse, although that is not definite. We will be using Fiber for the Riser connections. I would appreciate any real life information (good, bad, etc) about SynOptics, ODS, Du Pont Fiber Optics for AppleTalk, ProNET-4, ProNET-10, and ProNET-80, or any other comperable products. Sorry NO coax! :-) I have all the product information on all of these, I would like comments like "it works ok, except...." or "I had problems installing ...". Don't feel like you have to give me a technical comparision, Stop right now and tell me how the products you are using are working today, last week, last month. Oh yes, I almost forgot, Please send replies directly to me, and yes I will summarize to anyone interested. Thanks in advance for all the replies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Stoltz Internet: stoltz@ida.org Institute for Defense Analyses 1801 N. Beauregard St. Alexandria, Va 22311 Voice: (703) 845-2119
ron@RON.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Natalie) (03/23/89)
After some bad experiences with some early and not so early pronet ring products, we punted here and went to Fibercom Whisperlan. This device looks like an Ethernet transceiver but the boxes are interconnected with it's own token ring. We haven't had any problems attributable to the boxes, usually just the patch cords. Fibercom is in Roanoake Va. It's only Ethernet speed, but really, we've not got anything faster feeding it right now, so it makes sense. -Ron